T Mobile Starlink Sat Phone

[jgross424]

Just got the text that I was selected for beta. I also landed a pretty good spring bear tag- plenty of opportunity to put this service to the test.

Me too!

 

[IdahoBeav]

Please keep us posted!

It is a lot better than the iPhone satellite feature, but much the same, if you don't have a clear view of the sky, it either won't work or it will work slowly. This isn't an issue when you are moving on a hunt, but it can be an issue at camp.

Overall, it's much better than what we had before but there is room for improvement. It's certainly worth the $10/mo.

 

[180ls1]

It is a lot better than the iPhone satellite feature, but much the same, if you don't have a clear view of the sky, it either won't work or it will work slowly. This isn't an issue when you are moving on a hunt, but it can be an issue at camp.

Overall, it's much better than what we had before but there is room for improvement. It's certainly worth the $10/mo.

Excellent, thank you for the update.

 

[camping1601]

My wife got in to the beta a couple weeks ago and we had the chance to test it in the ANF in PA this past weekend. We averaged one bar of 4g on Verizon 90% of the weekend. I tried the sat. texting numerous times when we lost reception and it never once worked. There were three occasions we got a text that we had connected to the sat network but we still couldn't get a text out. One of those occasions I tried my Inreach and it worked. Im guessing this is the importance of beta testing to work out the bugs.

 

[IDHoundsman]

Seems as though even though I was selected for the beta program, it still has yet to be released?

 

[PredatorSlayer]

I’ll just say I have used the iphone sattelite messaging quite a bit during bear season and it has been flawless.

 

[camping1601]

Seems as though even though I was selected for the beta program, it still has yet to be released?

It was several weeks after the first email saying she was in before my wife got the actual email to sign up. I applied and was never selected.